SeedToScale

Why we picked it The in-house versus agency timing call is easier to make once you hear founders describe how their own team came together, and this Accel-curated show is full of Indian founders talking candidly about early company building and their first key hires. It will not hand you a single answer, but the founder stories make the tradeoff concrete: when the codebase stopped being something you could outsource, and what changed once a real engineer owned it. Treat it as pattern-matching against people who built in the same market you are in.

SeedToScale, Curated by Accel

On SeedToScale by Accel (hosted by Anand Daniel) Ongoing series, episodes roughly 30 to 60 minutes

• Founder-told stories make the first-engineer timing real in a way a checklist cannot: you hear what tipped each team from outside help to an owned in-house build.
• It is Indian-founder-aware, so the hiring and budget realities map to building outside the biggest global hubs rather than assuming Silicon Valley salaries.
• Company-building is covered across stages, so you can line up the hiring episodes against fundraising and product ones and see how the decisions interact.